Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total darkness Cecilia Blomdahl Scientists aren't sure how the circular ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe's Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom's re-entry to the EU's Copernicus program, funding has been ...

NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second ... community@space.com. Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers have now managed to do ...

so our results could promote more research about the magnetic field on both Earth and other planets." Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from ...

Earth is about to pluck a second moon from an asteroid belt — but we only get this mini-moon for 57 days. It's an asteroid about the size of a school bus, at 35 feet long, and it has a typical ...

Tomkins, whose study was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. “That made me think how would I see, in the geological record, if Earth had had a ring in the past as well.” ...

Science News // 2 days ago NASA says comet expected to put on show in Earth fly-by Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away ...

Get ready for a cosmic surprise this autumn - Earth is about to get a second moon, according to scientists. A small asteroid is going to be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and temporarily ...

A recently discovered asteroid has become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two months. Earth has a new moon — a mini-moon to be exact — as a small ...

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